Two Economy Principles for Merge and Grammaticalization - with Special Reference to the Categorial Changes of Like

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Pil-Hwan Lee Chegyong Im
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제97호, 235~253쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.12.30

영문 초록

The purpose of this study is to show that the two syntactic principles of Merge suggested in van Gelderen (2006) named Head Preference Principle and Late Merge Principle can be employed for the explanation of the categorial changes of the word like. The diachronic research on the data from the OED and recent studies verifies the grammaticalization of the word like as a verb, and/or an adjective, an adverb, and a complementizer, especially and/or as a discourse marker. Although the distribution of the categories is overlapped, the evolution of each category implies the cyclic change of the word from head to adjunct; verb as VP-head, conjunct as CP-head and DM as SentP-head.

목차

I. Introduction

2. Two Principles for Merge and Grammaticalization

3. Cyclic Evolution of Like

4. Concluding remarks

키워드

like diachronic evolution Head Preference Principle Late Merge Principle grammaticalization